Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:

Like this:

Readers Please Note: I deleted my Instagram App on December 18th, 2012 after reading Instagrams new terms and policies in regard to selling images to third party advertisers.

Before Liv retuned to school last month, she installed Instagram on my iPhone so that we could easily share photos. Instagram is very simple to understand–spoken by a techno- challenged person (although Joey recently pointed out that for someone my age, I am not too horribly technologically challenged). There has been much in the news about Instagram recently as the app was purchased by Mark Zuckerberg for one billion dollars, twice its estimated worth.

The first and most obvious advantages of the camera are the fact that it has good resolution, generally takes good exposures (i.e. not too light or too dark), and is with you wherever you take your cell phone (i.e. practically everywhere) without adding to the junk in your pockets or on your belt. Then there are cool apps like Instagram and Hipstamatic, which offer a variety of “vintage” effects, making it easy to add atmosphere to your photos.

Once I got involved in the iPhonography world, I noticed that some of my Instagram friends were taking awesome photos of the moon and other long-distance shots… which led me to check out conversion lenses for the iPhone. I found what I was looking for on Photojojo.com, a site with more cool (and sometimes crazy) camera gadgets than I have seen in any other place. This is the complete kit I bought for $79:

Four of the lenses (macro, 2x telephoto, 0.68x wide angle, and 0.28 fish eye) connect using magnetism – you get a sticker with a magnetic ring you stick around the lens on the iPhone. The 8x telephoto screws into a special case, and comes with a tripod.

Here are some comparison photos of all but the macro lens to show you the results. I took them all from exactly the same spot in the rectory window, using the tripod (the first photo is the setup I used).

The iPhone mounted on the tripod with the zoom lens attached to the special phone case (all three included in the kit)

Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:

Seize the day! Recent events have reminded our family to be thankful for everyday, every minute. It’s a difficult thought, to be able to experience great joy and beauty we must also experience great sorrow and pain. I was having a hard time today finding that fair. It was my 10 year old daughter that reminded me it’s not meant to be fair it just is what it is. She said lets just go out and enjoy some beauty. We went out to enjoy this beautiful fall day and I took the opportunity to try the camera on the 4s. Not bad! Charity

Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:

here is a video and a couple of pics i took on Saturday from aboard the Yankee Fleet fishing boat. we left shore right next door to your warehouse under threatening and mysterious skies! it was strange because it was so hot out, but at times the sky had a very ‘wintery’ look.

no matter what the weather, the trip turned out well, my nephew Adam caught the largest fish of the trip, an 11 pound cod, and was thrilled to win $100 and a free trip. my thanks to the crew of the Yankee Fleet for making it a great and safe trip!

Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:

My husband and I are faithful followers to GMG! We love it! We just moved to Gloucester in May and we’re living at Eastern Point Lighthouse. A few days ago we put up our only outside Christmas decoration….an illuminated 15ft wreath. We found the wreath stashed next to the lighthouse the day we moved in a couldn’t figure out what it could possibly be. Not knowing too much about the past holiday traditions with the lighthouse, I only assume that it used to be hung on the lighthouse itself. I took a few pictures and thought maybe you’d like to add it to the site for a little more holiday spirit! Take care! -Dani Lubbers

Ps.

My apologies that the pictures aren’t the greatest….a cell phone can’t cut it all the time!

Gloucester Webcam

The GloucesterCast Podcast

Free GMG Gloucester Sticker

As long as supplies last if any GMG folks want a bumper sticker but can't drop down the dock, just send a self addressed and stamped envelope longer then 7 and a half inches and I'll drop one in the mail for you.

Send the self addressed and stamped envelope to the dock at 95 East Main St Gloucester Ma 01930 care of Joey (put my name in big letters to make sure it gets to me)

Free GMG Gloucester Sticker

As long as supplies last if any GMG folks want a bumper sticker but can't drop down the dock, just send a self addressed and stamped envelope longer then 7 and a half inches and I'll drop one in the mail for you.

Send the self addressed and stamped envelope to the dock at 95 East Main St Gloucester Ma 01930 care of Joey (put my name in big letters to make sure it gets to me)